Hi john! i'm practicing with some human expressions and digital inking.i know it isn't the best work around here, but i wanted to shared it with you, maybe some observations, be hard, please. my name is leo, from venezuela, check this illustration i made yesterday for a party

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leonardogonzalez/2851407498/sizes/o/

and some details: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leonardogonzalez/2850567547/sizes/o/in/photostream/

and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leonardogonzalez/2850566281/sizes/o/in/photostream/

i'm practicing this digital inking on illustrator, but my home pc is freaking slowly, so the wacom makes some mistakes and sometimes the lines aren't too smooth.. for the background i tryied to use neutral, complex colors, to make the characters pop up from the illo.

well, i had some time without checking your blog, now i gotta do the homework and keep drawing.

(Hey, please do a cartoon wit that beautiful old unrefined, molten glass plate effect for underwater scenes like the one they used in Hare Ribbin', would'ja... Yep, I don' wanna see anymore Flash, I wanna see the dirt on the glass pressure-plate from photography, watch a speck travel some frames, and see more dirt on the multiplane element. Because it's there, like the needle in the blank groove... I'm in no position to make requests but I'm making a request...)

This is a great example of nickel-and-diming - the government enforcing all these little bullshit laws in order to get their hands on our money to pay back all the debt they've incurred thanks to their financial mismanagement!

hey John, i was wondering if you could do a post on producers. i just did a new post on my blog about some of my favorite shorts, and i've noticed since i was a kid that a lot of my favorite classic cartoons were produced by Fred Quimby.

Gosh, those New Kids on the Block, with their bright coloured clothes and dynamic poses are just so...so....ICONIC!

But seriously, what I find particularly galling is the cookie-cutter approach that makes them practically indistinguishable from each other due to the complete lack of any caricature and striving for individual likeness. It makes me yearn for that better era of TV cartoons from the 60s where The Beatles were so delightfully caricatured in a simple, very stylized cartoon fashion, resulting in each one of The Fab Four being instantly recognizable. Though the animation on that series was admittedly a little awkward, it was just nice to see that celebs could be really caricatured back then instead of being portrayed as the bland nonentities of today's animated mediocrities.